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Local winery featured on Iowa Farm Store Crawl

Hundreds of visitors will be making a stop in Webster County this weekend as part of the first ever Choose Iowa Farm Store Crawl — an initiative that encourages Iowans to support local farmers and small businesses while exploring Iowa’s agricultural offerings. Soldier Creek Winery, 1584 ...

Go and Do: June 20, 2025

In Fort Dodge FORT DODGE — Fort Dodge Farmers Market is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. SATURDAY at 11 N. 25th St. FORT DODGE — Karl L. King Municipal Band Concert is 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY at the Karl L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park. There is no admission charge, courtesy of the city of Fort Dodge. ...

Farmers Market Report

The Fort Dodge Farmers Market would like to say thank you to all those in the community who joined us for our opening day last Saturday. It was so good to see people we haven’t seen since last season and meet a lot of new people. Despite the warm temperatures, it was a great turnout. After ...

Manson grocery store could close

MANSON — Time may be running out for the nonprofit Manson Hometown Grocery store. Without a big surge in sales or some other infusion of cash, the store will close in late summer or early fall, leaders of the store reported Wednesday evening during a public meeting. “If things went ...

Iowa soldiers immersed in training

Just weeks after send-off ceremonies across the state, nearly 4,000 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers, including members of the unit based in Fort Dodge, are deep into one of the most rigorous and realistic training experiences the Army has — the Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at ...

Oakland Cemetery Walk has a new twist this year

In the late 1850s, the rural cemetery movement started across the United States. It moved cemeteries from right in the center of towns to the edge of towns. The idea was also to make the cemetery a gathering spot where families would walk, ride a horse, or take a horse carriage out to see ...